Supply Chain Illustrated

Mr. Tone was attempting to achieve excellence, even though mediocrity would have been sufficient.

A funny thing happened on the way to discovering the Lead Time Dear Customer, During our phone conversation yesterday, when you asked me ...

The Next Evolution of Material Requirements Planning For years now, there has been a new methodology called Demand Driven Material Requir...

Visibility, but not the usual. Years ago, at one of our APICS meetings, we had a meteorologist from a local television station as our gue...

Find the right road I dislike using a flathead screwdriver. Hard to hit the target, hard to hold position and with every twist I must res...

Metric Wars – Beginner Level Once again, I arrived at work to find that we are out of a raw material. Not the same raw material as last w...

BRIDGE THE GAP One of the most well-known awareness campaigns in the world is London’s “Mind the Gap” campaign designed to raise awarenes...

Uncommon Sense Does managing your supply chain today feel like a game of Whack-a-Mole? Wait for the problem to surface and then work as q...

Supply Chain Complexity It may be common knowledge among Supply Chain Professionals, but I wonder if everyone else in most companies real...

Does everyone understand why MRP doesn’t work today? Let’s look at an example of one MRP issue. An order arrives for 20 pieces of part nu...